rs25487(C;C)

2x higher risk for skin cancer; possibly other cancers

Magnitude
2.0Worth knowing
Repute
Bad
Frequency
55%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs25487(G;G)Minus strand
Gene
XRCC1

Frequency

Share of people with C;C in each HapMap population.

  • Luhya (Kenya)81%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)79%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)67%
  • Maasai (Kenya)65%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)56%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)54%
  • Chinese (Denver)50%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)46%
  • European ancestry (Utah)38%
  • Tuscan37%
  • Gujarati Indian35%

Other genotypes of rs25487

  1. T;TMost notableGood0.7x lower risk for skin cancerWorth knowing · 2.06% of people
  2. C;TBad2x higher risk for skin cancer; possibly other cancersWorth knowing · 2.039% of people

All about rs25487

Source and license

Adapted from rs25487(G;G) on SNPedia, using a snapshot taken October 16, 2026. SNPedia content is shared under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US, and this page is shared under the same license.

SNPedia is a community-edited wiki. Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice. Magnitude is a community rating of how interesting a genotype is, not a risk score.